What would be in a Hell masquerading as Heaven?

In My Humble Opinion
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Let’s pretend the conventional ideas of heaven and hell are real. Let’s also pretend the Devil is a trickster and will make people think there in Heaven but actually in Hell just as a joke. So what passive things that seem good but are actually bad would he do?

I was thinking

All you can eat crackers and charcuterie when you first arrive, but all the drink fountains are temporarily out of order the entire time.

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Have you seen the TV show The Good Place? It nailed it.

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I was going to suggest the same thing: Season 1 of that series was essentially the premise in the OP, including:

  • Outwardly very nice fellow residents, who are actually kind of obnoxious
  • Fun activities that turn out to be disappointing
  • A stupidly large number of frozen-yogurt shops, all of which have groanworthy, dad-joke-level punny names
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Fake good news.

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My ex GFs would be there, looking as hot as ever. But I’m still not getting any.

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The band in Heaven, they play my favorite song
They play it once again, they play it all night long
Heaven is a place where nothing ever happens
—Talking Heads

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I’m pretty sure the doorman of this Hell masquerading as Heaven would tell me I couldn’t bring my dog.

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It would be whatever you want, but far more than you want.

An ice cream lover being forced to eat many gallons of ice cream per day, endlessly.

You like sex? Now you must have it 200 times per day.

Etc.

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I was thinking just the opposite… every bite you tried to take would fall on the floor…

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I think that was part of the frozen-yogurt joke in The Good Place: everyone loves ice cream, and frozen yogurt is kind of like ice cream, but disappointing in comparison.

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Oh, okay. I haven’t seen that show.

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Highly recommended. I saw the topic title, and was going to respond “Ted Danson”.

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I always go back to the old Twilight Zone episode.
The criminal goes to “heaven”, and finds that he wins at all the games - craps, blackjack, slots, whatever. First, he’s ecstatic. Then… he’s bored. Always winning has no challenge. And for the rest of eternity, he only wins.
Cue Rod Serling…

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“There is something so human in taking something great like ice cream, and making it a tinier bit worse so you can have more of it.”

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Welcome to heaven! You will live forever, you are invulnerable from any harm, death or decay. The universe is not.

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White-haired Sebastian Cabot: “Mr. Valentine… this is the other place!”

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Damnation by snu-snu!

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THAT’S the one!
That, and Burgess Meredith sitting on the library steps with broken glasses…

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I think Piers Anthony did a good job in the Incarnations of Immortality series where it was an illusion of whatever you wanted.